laptop wont shut down

[cablefreejunkie]

hello all
im having issues shutting down my laptop,,,basically it wont shut down,,i can restart fine,but when i try and switch off it does nothing at all,im running xp pro
anyone got any ideas what the problem might be ?
i have executed a full system scan aswell and all is ok there

[roryson]

have you tried doing a system restore..?

[cablefreejunkie]

no not yet
will give that a shot and report back

[chucklor]

It sounds as if your settings are wrong in the control panel of your computor, you can change what happens when you close the lid or press the on/off etc.. I have just had a look on a XP system, go into control panel and click into power options then go into advanced and change them accordingly but remember to press apply and OK to save any changes...

[cablefreejunkie]

i tried a restore but for some strange reason it has switched itself off,,,dont know why as i have never changed it,,,looked in the power options,,,all seems ok there,,although there is no option for shutdown,,,this lappy seems to be playing up quite a bit lately,,,ive had no end of problems with various things playing up and going wrong,,,,,whats the life expectancy of a toshiba satellite ?

[roryson]

I have a toshiba equium, it's about 5 years old and is fine. You could try a full system restore with recovery media u have. I always do a restore every now and then to keep it running tiptop.

[cablefreejunkie]

i always had this option in the back of my mind,bit of a pain in the arse to have to do a full system restore but the lappy is only 5 years old so should be plenty of life left in the old girl yet

[biggusdickus]

My Toshiba Equium is over 5 years old and runs great. If you have original disk you could always do a repair using windows recovery console.

[cablefreejunkie]

think i will give that a shot,,quick question how do i save all my bookmarks before i rub the hard drive ?

[lewshanks]

are you running windows 7 ?

[lewshanks]

Control Panel -> Device Manager -> Select IEEE 1394 Host Bus Controllers and select 1394 Device.

Right Click device -> Select properties -> Power Management Tab

Check the box -> Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power ( Mine was not checked by default)

this worked for me

[Atsuktuvas]

Reinstall windows

[binary]

Hi, I've got a Satillite but with Vista on, When i did a full scan and sellected repair sector i found that the scan albut stoped about 86% could'nt do a thing with it, without installing the repair disc but needed the info on it so i installed a new drive a few months later reinstalled the old drive got boot up and its running todate same thing happened to my new drive. the only thing i could put it down to was Kaspersky once the licence run out it did'nt seem to be a problem

[cablefreejunkie]

im running xp
im gonna to a full restore,,,i been having many different issues with this lappy for a while now,,,and the latest one of not being able to shut down for a month has mysteriously cleared itself as of this evening,,,,also tried a restore but restore had been switched off,,,not by me
my last questiion is how do i save my bookmarks before i restore using the restore cd

[smoggy]

if your going to start afresh then you will need to save them on a cd/floppy or another drive.

this site should point you in the right direction How to backup and restore my Internet Favorites / Bookmarks.